Monday, November 22, 2010

Who first said "We are the music makers..."?


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Why: I was just watching "250 Introductions of 185 People, Groups, & Things." Near the end, Willy Wonka says it, but I think I have also heard it sampled in some song.
Answer: Arthur William Edward O'Shaughnessy! It's the opening of "Ode" from his 1874 book Music and Moonlight:
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
Source: PoemHunter

The More You Know: I found it. I first heard it in this song by Aphex Twin, but it's in a lot of other things, too:
(I have never seen Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I hate Gene Wilder.)

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